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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Whole Foods and homemade breakfast sausage!

Now "what" you may ask do the 2 things have to do with each other??? Last weekend we took a short drive (about 45 minutes) to Naples to the new Whole Foods store there. I have never been in one before and I was really curious especially about there meats. I had been warned that this would be an expensive shopping trip as the glitz and the shine will entice me to buy way more than I needed! I was prepared...but you know what? I think because we don't eat processed and prepackaged foods I really didn't see a whole lot that I would buy. They have aisles and aisles of things but I can get alot of that stuff elsewhere or can make it myself!

But the meat...OMG the meat! I have never seen so much "happy meat" in one place in my entire life!!!! We bought beef, pork, chicken...It was wonderful. But alas their is always that one sad spot. They had no pork breakfast sausage! My youngest daughter LOVES, LOVES, LOVES breakfast sausage.

I ended up buying some ground pork and trying my hand at sausage making. No way was I going to stuff any casings but she also likes patties so I was good there! After searching the internet for a sausage that wasn't too sweet, here's what I came up with...

I gave up my Costco card some time ago because I never buy their processed foods...but they have an exscellent meat and seafood section too:D...plus you can't beat the cost of photo reprints!! I used to make my own sausage...thanks for bringing back great memories Judy..and happy eating!!

I have never made homemade sausage - thanks for this wondeful recipe.. I love whole foods and have been there many times but right now however I am doing the bristol farms happy dance as it just opened within walking distance of my house and it is off the charts amazing..

I think it depends on the size of the store, ours has a vast selection of bulk organic and natural products, meat, seafood, and cheeses. It can be expensive but if we all ate more organic and natural, it would become less of a pain to go out of the way. I like the recipe with the added brown sugar, I will have to make this one -E

These look fantastic! My husband makes a spicy sausage gravy that we serve with biscuits... This sausage patty would pair very nicely with it. I think we'll try this as a side on our next sleep-in morning when we lazily get up then fix a yummy brunch. Thanks for sharing.